Midjourney bans all Stability AI employees over alleged data scraping

Midjourney claims the alleged activity caused a 24-hour service outage.

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Can you steal something that's stolen?
- You wouldn't download a generative AI dataset!
- It's not that they were scraping the data, it's that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.
  
  It's still on midjourney for not putting protections in place to prevent it, though.
  
  it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.
  
  This is trivial to mitigate with a common-sense throttling. You throttle at a level that would not bother a human, but would still block a bot. Almost all websites like Instagram do this.
- Someone was scraped Midjourney's gallery website fast enough to cause a mild DoS attack. So they're kind of mad about that. They don't seem to have a lot of overhead. They can barely run all of their services from what I understand.
  
  Only two accounts even!
I wonder how much copyrighted work there is in Midjourney :) Would they be willing to submit their datasets for an audit?
Hypocrisy so thick you could swim in it.
- Maybe read the article before commenting.
Fun fact: Midjourney bans prompts depicting genocidal dictator Xi Jinping, but no other world leaders.
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